I was very lucky to visit the Samana peninsula just ten years ago. We had rent a car and drove around the country, but we fell in love with El Rincon beach and Las Galeras village. I'm very curious to know if it still the quiet paradise i saw then. I really hope it is not full of AI resorts nowdays...

Its still quite virgin, but its days as a virgin territory are numbered. The government built a new international airport where the peninsula meets the rest of the island and Samaná has preferred tax incentives for the development of tourist related businesses along its coast. The government has also built a new highway and new infrastructural improvements are scheduled for the city of Samaná. The tourism that will develop in Samaná in the coming years is not going to be of the masses, as is the case in other Dominican destinations such as Punta Cana or Bayahibe, and attention to maintaining as much as possible of the natural beauty is also part of the plan; but it will definitely be much more than it is right now and than how it was when you last visited the place.

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Yes, I've heard about the new international airport. When I visited Samana, there was a small airstrip El Portillo, a dirt road with colorful small planes coming from Santo Domingo.Here's is the second video of the trip to this amazing part of the world. Las Terrenas village as I saw it then and the nearby beaches. At 00:38 you can see the airport El Portillo: